We saw it under the Bush administration in which the CIA and George Tenet, the director of the CIA, famously characterized the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a slam dunk, because that's what the vice president, Dick Cheney, and the president wanted to hear.
Himes compares the current situation with intelligence to past instances where intelligence was manipulated to fit political narratives.
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He doesn't have an iota of national security experience, and the president is putting him in this most sensitive of roles.
Our elections are not corrupt. They are fair and free, and that is sort of an undebatable fact based on the evidence that is out there.
Very sadly, I think we’re going to test this untested question about whether the program can run on a judicial certification alone.
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